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RE: SUMMARY: Readability studies on fonts--serif and sans serif
Subject:RE: SUMMARY: Readability studies on fonts--serif and sans serif From:"Dick Margulis" <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 7 Mar 2000 13:47:54 -0500
>Okay, third time is the charm. If you ever have the opportunity to select a Web mail application, please don't pick the one my ISP uses--IMail Server by Ipswitch. I can now see that it imposes a length limit on paragraphs, of all things. So, picking up just the cut-off sentence from my last two posts, here is how it should have read...
.. He designed robust serifs and moderate thins to prevent breakage during casting, stereotyping, and printing.